Our people

Meet the team at Fastmarkets

With more than 500 team members worldwide, we have price reporters on the ground, as well as analysts and editorial teams who are researching and reporting on shifting market dynamics for the commodity markets we serve.

Our team provides price data for thousands of proprietary prices, as well as forecasts, market intelligence and insights-rich events for market participants to network, trade and discuss the critical forces driving change.

Below you can read more about each of the members of our senior leadership team, or browse some of the recent insights and analyses from our talented group of price reporters, analysts and editorial teams working across the four markets we serve.

We believe in celebrating and enriching the diversity and wellbeing of our people. This drives more inclusive behavior, perspectives and better business outcomes.
Steve D’Souza, chief strategy and product officer, and chair of Fastmarkets’ Diversity & Inclusion group
Meet the leadership team

Kulwant Bhatia 

Chief technology officer

Steve D’Souza

Chief strategy and product officer 

Louise Noone

Chief human resources officer

Katie Brown

General counsel

Perrine Faye

Editorial director 

Catherine Oates

Managing director, events

Toby Burton

Chief financial officer

Daniel Klein

Executive vice president, analytics

Justin Wolfe

Interim general counsel 

Raju Daswani

Fastmarkets CEO

James Mansfield

Chief revenue officer

The board
Fastmarkets CEO
Chief financial and operating officer
Partner, Astorg
Director, Astorg
Fastmarkets non-executive board director
Investment manager, Astorg
Insights from our price reporters, analysts and editorial teams

Browse our insights and analysis across the four markets we serve from our experts in agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new generation energy

The polls officially opened in the US on Tuesday November 5 for the presidential election pitting incumbent Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.

Here are the key takeaways from market participants on US ferrous scrap metal prices, market confidence, inventory and more from our November survey

Lithium prices have fallen significantly, putting the cost of cells at 7.5% of the price of an EV as of August 2024 (Tesla Model 3 Base, USA), down from 15% in January 2023. Find out how falling raw materials prices are impacting auto OEMs and reshaping global EV pricing strategies

African material will remain part of the tantalum supply chain regardless of the lithium market, according to Ian Margerison, executive marketing manager at the Tantalum-Niobium International Study Center (TIC).

As the US heads to the polls to vote for its next presidential candidate in what many have characterized as one of the closest races in electoral history, the energy sector hangs in the balance.

Speculators in the US corn market cut short positions, helping send the net short to the highest level since August 2023, while adding shorts in soybean and wheat contracts in the week to Tuesday October 29, data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) showed late on Friday November 1.

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